70 PER CENT COLLECTED
GISBORNE BOROUGH RATES INCREASE ON LAST YEAR SATISFACTORY POSITION Almost 70 per cent of the Gisborne Borough rates for the current financial year were paid up to the last discount day, an increase of nearly per cent on the payments up to the corresponding period last year. Reporting to the council last night, the town clerk.. Mr. W. M. Jenkins, stated that of £08,071 struck for the year, £47,435 had been paid up to the last discount day, the proportion paid being 69.08 per cent of the total struck.
Last year, rates struck totalled £68,564, of which £45,397 was paid prior to the cessation of the discount, the percentage collected being 66.21. This year’s figures on current rates were 3.47 per cent better than last year’s. A greater proportion of arrears also had been collected up to the end of August. Of £BBB3 outstanding on April 1, 1939, £2594, or 29.201 per cent, had been paid up to August 31. A year ago £2858 had been paid up to a corresponding period out of £9933 outstanding ift the beginning of the financial year, the percentage of those arrears collected at the time mentioned being 28.773 per cent. This year’s collection of arrears was better by .428 per cent.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20035, 6 September 1939, Page 11
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21270 PER CENT COLLECTED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20035, 6 September 1939, Page 11
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